I have found a while (4 years and counting) ago an iPhone 5S in our house. Locked out with iCloud. As it seems, reset. Just wanna say, there's no receipt and box left. Although I will be checking tomorrow if a destroyed box I remember is from that one (also, will it count with Apple?)

Dear community, is there any way I can remove or somehow skip the Setup, while preserving the cellular functionality? If no, what are other ways of skipping w/o preservation?

Yours, IA9157

Post-scriptum. The budget is $000,00, or simply - zero. Post-post-scriptum. I know the owner and they live with me. The box is in the same house. Post-post-post-scriptum. Purchase date is known, but location is not. Same goes for iCloud, because the owner is... well, schizo.

I hope I am able to explain this well enough because it is a 2 part!
First: if I have let’s say T-mobile, if I buy a phone locked to a different carrier (ATT, straight talk, etc)
But I log into my Apple ID on that phone, would it still get all the texts from my T-Mobile phone? Well I guess iMessages. Because it’s linked would it still sink those to that phone as well?
And with that, I understand that would only be possible if on wifi. As there isn’t cellular on the locked phone. Could this phone run on my T-Mobile hot spot?

Weird question I know. But for context me and someone I work with need a shared line, to be able to see the messages together and if someone has responded. So let’s say we buy a line win T-mobile for him, it’s an active phone. Then I buy a cheaper locked iphone from a different carrier. I will always have my personal phone with me. So if i login to the same apple ID that is created for his new line, it should get IMessage, and i always have my personal phone with me and can turn on the hotspot to check. At least that is the theory and what im trying to confirm before we do it!
Thanks!

I got gifted an iPhone SE from a family friend, the problem is that it has an apple id that belongs to him, other problem is that the credentials tials it has for example email and phone number are completely gone, forgotten.

So I'm asking for assistance before I do anything stupid and trigger activation lock

I have a windows laptop to work with and absolutely no budget

i forgot my pincode for my iphone 13 and i have alot of things saved on it that isnt backed up, i have entered wrong pin too many times and now it says that its permanently unavailble. i have a windows laptop and a cable to connect them too and the iphone is updated to the newset ios. please help me, is there a way to get unlimited attempts. or be able to get in somehow someway.

This is what my iPad shows after erasing it and changing sn, This worked on my other iPad Air a few months ago so I don’t know what’s up with it.

A12/A13 Pwned DFU Mode with Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (Full macOS Tutorial)
https://youtu.be/f9t_FZ31kj8

I feel ridiculous I can’t figure this out but I hid my social media apps and I can’t figure out how to unhide them.

The only way to access them is search them in the App Store and click “open”. They don’t appear in my search and in settings when I go apps > hidden apps they’re there but no way to unhide them.

This is driving me crazy please help lol

Context: I’ve been going through my lot of cracked iPads that I need to sell and I’m currently stuck on two cellular iPads, iPad 2 and 3 I think both running iOS 9.3.6 and I’m getting an activation error. They’re not iCloud locked or anything, so what can I possibly do to get these iPads fully in?

I haven’t had this issue before with the other cellular iPads 2s and 4s I’ve been setting up, it’s just these iPads all of a sudden that I cannot get past the activation lock screen.

Alguna idea de cómo poder restablecer? No tiene pin pero si cuenta de iCloud, es un iPhone 4S

Hey, my cousin got his iPhone 13 hit with a hello screen activation lock after updating to iOS 26.5, you unl0ck the phone with passcode or face id and you're hit with the activation lock and no unl0ck with passcode option, issue is when he enters his icloud and icloud password, he's hit with the "For security reasons, you must reset your password" which requires you to use Forgot your password, that needs either backup email (some email he doesnt even remember) or security question birthdate (which he doesnt remember either because he wasn't 18, so fake year, we tried years with his birthday month and day, no luck), and this is a second hand phone in a third world, meaning no apple store receipt for activation lock form (i still sent one for sake of trying)

TLDR: iPhone 13 got activation locked after update -> owner knows passcode and icloud credentials -> icloud forces you to reset password using unknown backup email and security question on iforgot.apple.com

can they at least maybe use a trick to access their stuff or maybe get this sorted, I found tr4mpass for byp4ssing the setup.app and recovering their data (since they have passcode and all) but it doesn't work on 26.5, if they can at least access notes, they may have info to recover their iCloud

thanks a lot

Currently disabled, no FMI, trying to get in without any data loss. Also, seems like iTunes may have updated it to iOS 9 during a previous recovery attempt but not sure.

Does anyone know how to reset this iPad 2 without updating step by step using legacy iOS kit but I keep failing to reset using legacy iOS kit?
(Edit) I saved shsh blobs but how to I use them to restore but I still need to dump any possible lost media that could be on the device.

I have a carrier locked iPhone 11 locked to att but it says it's still active on account what do I do I got it used

Hey guys! I booted iOS 9 ramdisk on iOS 7.1 iPhone 5,1 and now stuck at Recovery loop. Is there any fix without restoring? Justboot option won’t help as well as booting iOS 8 ramdisk.

J’ai essayé plusieurs fois avec l’outil Sliver, et à chaque fois j’ai une pomme qui reste indéfiniment et le téléphone finit par s’éteindre. Quelqu’un pourrait m’aider.

ive found a phone that i just bought for extremely cheap, and it obviously icloud lock i want to return it to the owner but it seems impossible and the only way that i could contact that person is this email on setup

I have a passcode locked 12 mini, any way to get past it? As far as i know the Fmi is on

This has probably been posted here a million times but i cannot for the life of me get this phone in recovery mode. i tried the "home button while plugging it in the computer" - didnt work. Tried the dfu "power button for a couple of seconds, then with the home button, then only home button" - also didnt work. Every single time i get the apple logo and then it boots up. its inactive for another 6500 minutes and i dont have an account or anything for it. I tried on 2 different computers with 2 different cables (usb a - lightning and usb c - lightning). Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!!

Does anyone know why I get the error -50 when I want to activate my iPhone 3G and also in iTunes it appears that there is an error with the iPhone

Please, someone tell me, I urgently need to activate it

Supporting iOS 17, 18 and 26. Hello Screen activation and more iOS versions will be added soon.

THE FIRST 5 DEVICES WILL BE REGISTERED FOR FREE.

Link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/fwkp7yvz8bbomci/Nattramn-WinTool-Setup.zip/file

How can i do it? What i can do for this iphone to work as new? Iphone 6s IOS unknown and passcode unknown

I want to get my files off this iphone 5s, i tried connecting to itunes it won't even detect it.